The history of human populations in the Japanese Archipelago inferred from genome-wide SNP data with a special reference to the Ainu and the Ryukyuan populations

• Main Authors: Timothy Adrian, Jinam, Nao, Nishida, M, Hirai, Shoji, Kawamura, Hiroki, Oota, K, Umetsu, Ryosuke, Kimura, Jun, Ohashi, Atsushi, Tajima, T, Yamamoto, H, Tanabe, S, Mano, Y, Suto, T, Kaname, K, Naritomi, K, Yanagi, N, Niikawa, Keiichi, Omoto, Katsushi, Tokunaga, Naruya, Saitou
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Nature Limited 2012
• Subjects: QH426 Genetics
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/42226/1/The%20history.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/42226/; https://www.nature.com/articles/jhg2012114

The Japanese Archipelago stretches over 4000 km from north to south, and is the homeland of the three human populations; the Ainu, the Mainland Japanese and the Ryukyuan. The archeological evidence of human residence on this Archipelago goes back to 430 000 years, and various migration routes and ro...